It's sad that I had to delete my previous blog. Well, Theresa really, because I had called her in a panic, asking her to help me.
I was at NUS when my dad called, reading out to me one of my entries [about PCH], asking if I was the author. He was pretty sure I was because it was my style and because it had my name. [But he still wasn't sure if it was MY blog] Upon hearing that, I became all frantic and panic-key, fearing that he would stumble upon later entries with pictures.
So I enlisted the help of my trusty friends. Hahah.
But now that blog's GONE. =(
I feel so much better about the entire wanting-to-club fiasco.
I think it's a normal thing to want to occasionally - as Taha so aptly puts it - be gone with moral responsibilities. I questioned my mom, asking her what was so wrong when all I wanted to do was dance. She said it's up to the individual..whether I'd be happy in an atmosphere where bodies are pressed together with the smell of sex [and sleaze] hovering. I guess I'll never know whe decadence until I fully experience it and maybe then I'll change my mind and realize that it's not that bad, but that's actually what I want to avoid the most. To "realize" that it's not that bad.
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How do you fight for peace?
Read this.
While governments are still debating on the need for an immediate ceasefire, attacks are still being launched, people are dying.
And look at this.
Taken from here:
These days, the Israeli government hardly bothers with the pretence that it is only waging war on those it regards as terrorists. The bombing of civil institutions, destruction of power stations and killing of civilians constitutes warfare against the unarmed and everyone knows it, even if the attempt is made to justify it as being directed at inducing action against Hezbollah and Hamas.
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It might push into more active opposition those already hostile to them, at least in Lebanon, but having seen the beginnings of a return of prosperity, no one wants the country to go back to a reliving of the nightmare of the 17 years of civil war that only ended in 1990.
Even those in the middle classes, who are seeing their livelihoods going up in smoke, or in the well-established elites of the various Lebanese communities, who regard Hezbollah as a troublesome upstart, are likely to be wary of sponsoring actions that would make them appear to be doing Israel's bidding or capitulating to its intimidatory tactics, *especially against an organisation that displayed courage, skill and imagination in freeing the occupied south.
*referring to how Hezbulloh was formed to protect the Lebanese against Israel occupation which lasted 8 years
